Chesterton's fence is not about never changing things. They followed Chesterton's fence to the letter. They saw something that didn't make sense, and then tra

Chesterton's fence is not about never changing things. They followed Chesterton's fence to the letter. They saw something that didn't make sense, and then tracked down why it worked the way it did. Once they understood the root cause, they examined the environment and discovered that the underlying issue had been fixed. That allowed them to confidently rework the inconvenient behavior into something better.